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In this paper we summarise the localisation calculation of 5D super Yang-Mills on simply connected toric Sasaki-Einstein (SE) manifolds. We show how various aspects of the computation, including the equivariant index, the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Jian Qiu , Luigi Tizzano , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

We provide a contour integral formula for the exact partition function of ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ gauge theories on compact toric four-manifolds by means of supersymmetric localisation. We perform the explicit evaluation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Mikhail Bershtein , Giulio Bonelli , Massimiliano Ronzani , Alessandro Tanzini

We study the large $ N$ sign oscillation of the twisted indices for 3D theories of class $\mathcal{R}$ obtained from M5-branes wrapped on a hyperbolic 3-manifold. Holographically, the oscillatory behavior can be understood from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Sunjin Choi , Dongmin Gang , Nakwoo Kim

It is shown that the Topological Massive and ``Self-dual'' theories, which are known to provide locally equivalent descriptions of spin 1 theories in 2+1 dimensions, have different global properties when formulated over topologically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 P. J. Arias , A. Restuccia

The superconformal index of a 4d gauge theory is computed by a matrix integral arising from localization of the supersymmetric path integral on S^3 x S^1 to the saddle point. As the radius of the circle goes to zero, it is natural to expect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Abhijit Gadde , Wenbin Yan

We perform a topological-holomorphic twist of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory on a four-manifold of the form $M_4=\Sigma_1 \times \Sigma_2$ with Riemann surfaces $\Sigma_{1,2}$, and unravel the mathematical implications of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-31 Zhi-Cong Ong , Meng-Chwan Tan

We use localization techniques to calculate the Euclidean partition functions for $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories on four-dimensional manifolds $M$ of the form $S^1 \times M_3$, where $M_3$ is a circle bundle over a Riemann surface. These are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Tatsuma Nishioka , Itamar Yaakov

We construct 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on an infinite family of 4D toric manifolds with the topology of connected sums of $S^2 \times S^2$. These theories are constructed through the dimensional reduction along a non-trivial $U(1)$-fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Guido Festuccia , Jian Qiu , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

We study the twisted indices of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions on spatial $S^{2}$ with an angular momentum refinement. We demonstrate factorisation of the index into holomorphic blocks for the $T[SU(N)]$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-01 Samuel Crew , Nick Dorey , Daniel Zhang

We explore the geometric interpretation of the twisted index of 3d ${\mathcal N} =4$ gauge theories on $S^1\times \Sigma$ where $\Sigma$ is a closed Riemann surface. We focus on a rich class of supersymmetric quiver gauge theories that have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Heeyeon Kim

We study three-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on ${\Sigma_g \times S^1}$ with a topological twist along $\Sigma_g$, a genus-$g$ Riemann surface. The twisted supersymmetric index at genus $g$ and the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim

We analyse the computation of the partition function of 5d $T_N$ theories in Higgs branches using the topological vertex. The theories are realised by a web of $(p,q)$ 5-branes whose dual description may be given by an M-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-24 Hirotaka Hayashi , Gianluca Zoccarato

We consider the computation of the topological string partition function for 5-brane web diagrams with an O7$^-$-plane. Since upon quantum resolution of the orientifold plane these diagrams become non-toric web diagrams without the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Hirotaka Hayashi , Gianluca Zoccarato

We apply localization techniques to compute the partition function of a two-dimensional N=(2,2) R-symmetric theory of vector and chiral multiplets on S^2. The path integral reduces to a sum over topological sectors of a matrix integral over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Francesco Benini , Stefano Cremonesi

We compute the superconformal index of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories obtained from $N$ M5-branes wrapped on a hyperbolic 3-manifold. Exploiting the 3d-3d correspondence, we use perturbative invariants of $SL(N,\mathbb{C})$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-30 Francesco Benini , Dongmin Gang , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

We study the Nekrasov partition function of the five dimensional U(N) gauge theory with maximal supersymmetry on R^4 x S^1 in the presence of codimension two defects. The codimension two defects can be described either as monodromy defects,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Mathew Bullimore , Hee-Cheol Kim , Peter Koroteev

We test the AdS/CFT correspondence by computing the partition function of some $\mathcal{N}=2$ quiver Chern-Simons-matter theories on three-sphere. The M-theory backgrounds are of the Freund-Rubin type with the seven-dimensional internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Sangmo Cheon , Hyojoong Kim , Nakwoo Kim

We compute the partition function of five-dimensional abelian gauge theory on a five-torus T5 with a general flat metric using the Dirac method of quantizing with constraints. We compare this with the partition function of a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-10 Louise Dolan , Yang Sun

We continue the study of 3d ${\mathcal N}=2$ Chern-Simons (CS) quiver gauge theories on $\Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}}\times S^1$. Using localization results, we compute the twisted index of recently constructed SCFTs in the large rank limit.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-24 Dharmesh Jain

We compute the 4d superconformal index for N=1,2 gauge theories on S^1 x L(p,1), where L(p,1) is a lens space. We find that the 4d N=1,2 index on S^1 x L(p,1) reduces to a 3d N=2,4 index on S^1 x S^2 in the large p limit, and to a 3d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-17 Francesco Benini , Tatsuma Nishioka , Masahito Yamazaki